Cybermage is in my mind for some reason, but in general that's par for the course for any ambitious Origin games (Janes included). Probably the least crashiest origins were Wing Commander III/IV. when you've got hamill, wilson and mcdowell, you'd better have it debugged out

leileilol wrote on 2026-01-25, 23:55:

Cybermage is in my mind for some reason, but in general that's par for the course for any ambitious Origin games (Janes included). Probably the least crashiest origins were Wing Commander III/IV. when you've got hamill, wilson and mcdowell, you'd better have it debugged out

No love for John Rhys-Davies? 😉

Rhys-Davies couldn't save Ripper and Dune 2000's technical issues. 🙁

I remember having a terrible time with Madden NFL game ports in the early 2000s. One of them was so incredibly bad that it became a running joke for my brother and I, and I will never remember the old EA slogan the same way again. I think it was 2002, 2003 or 2004... it would crash before even finishing the EA logo video.

Our entire experience with the game consisted of:

"E....A.... Sports.... It's in the game-ame-ame-ame-ame-ame-ame..." and after doing that for a while the system would eventually blue screen or reboot. The PC ran everything else perfectly fine, so it was just this game... ame ame ame. *ahem* Sorry.

I don't know how many times we tried to make it work before giving up and probably returning it (which was very difficult with open boxed software).

leileilol wrote on 2026-01-28, 14:02:

Rhys-Davies couldn't save Ripper and Dune 2000's technical issues. 🙁

He may have fought side by side with an elf, but side by side with a visual basic developer was more than he could stomach. 🤣

Kidding of course, I do not know what dev platform was.

Reunion has memory leaks that will reliably crash the system, and trying to load a save game will frequently crash at the same point - I ended up just playing through the entire game on an Amiga A1200 instead.

Kind of a shame - it's one of the few games (along with Pinball Fantasies) that runs on a 286 and has GUS support.

UCyborg wrote on 2026-01-24, 10:22:

Perhaps pirated version was better. 😜 I ran it on a PC with 2 GHz Intel Celeron, 256 MB of RAM and a GeForce4 MX 440.

Pirated Windows games are better and never crashed. No steam. No drm. No cd-locks. Mostly not even a cd key.

Half Life2 was ultra fast online. Doom3 was told to be uncrackable and like few weeks was online. 😂